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JULY/AUGUST 2013 THE GAYTON GROUP OF PARISHES www.gaytongroupofparishes.org Welcome to our bumper summer edition of the Voice. As always there is lots going on and hopefully something to suit everyone. July events include a summer BBQ at East Walton (p13) and summer fair at Leziate Village Hall (p11). In Gayton (p19) you could attend the Social Club summer event or treat yourself to a strawberry cream tea with the Gayton WI. Messy Church are visiting the beach (p27). St Cecilia's Church, West Bilney also has an open weekend, including special events (p15). In August there is the annual coffee morning at The Davey's and a Wildlife Fayre at Gayton Hall (p19). You could join in with the Gaywood Library town read (p21) or visit the Library; they have a reading challenge (p33), story times and even learning to knit events (p39). September sees the return of the annual church bike ride (p24). If you have never taken part why not contact Sue or Nell to find out more about how you can be involved. There is also a pet service and pleasure ride at East Walton to look forward to (p13). Good luck to everyone organising the events, let's hope the weather is great for you all. Don't forget to keep all the articles and events coming in. Best wishes, Catriona Copy in by18th August , please. Delivery date is 30 th August . 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The church is built for God to live in, except you can't find him in there. You can find the Vicar. It's God who's harder to find. I think maybe he's hiding. The church has lots of windows, but they're high up so you can't look out of them. They have Bible people painted on them. God is in some of them, but he looks quite angry. Maybe that's because all these people are sitting in his house. There is a very important table called an altar. But it doesn't alter, it doesn't do anything, it just stands there. If you run around the church when the Vicar is talking, you get dragged off and taken out the church for five minutes. Then Dad says I've got to calm down. Sometimes Dad takes me out to calm down three or four times. Sometimes I was calm already! There's a big box up the front on top of some steps, it's for standing in when you tell people about God. Except the Vicar doesn't go up there, he stands down the bottom with everyone else, and tells them what to do from there. Prayers are like asking God for things, but God must hate you asking for things, because when the person's asking the prayers everybody else ducks down and hides behind the chair in front! Those comments gave me more than one smile and a chuckle to myself, but they also made me think. Children see things in a very straight forward, literal way and they are not afraid to say what they think. In that way they are often more honest than us adults. They can reveal much to us. However, unless something is explained and taught to them they will simply 'say what they see.' Rather like the TV quiz show 'catch phrase'! I really enjoy the contact I have with the children in our villages, through the schools, guiding groups, messy church and family services on Sundays. If I were to carry out my own survey about 'the church' (now there's a thought) with our children (which includes messy church and collective worship in school) I hope most would say 'it's fun'. I sincerely hope none of them would say they have to be taken out to 'calm down'! And I hope that at least some would 'see' the church as the place where they come to learn about the life of Jesus and the stories he told which teach usall how to live His Way and become better, more loving, happier people. And ultimately where we not only learn about, but discover the love of God for ourselves. Let the little children come to me, do not stop them, for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs … and he took them up in his arms, laid hands on them, and blessed them. Mark 10.13-16 Much love Rev'd Jane The Gayton Group of Parishes July/August 2013 | 05 Hair Matters Let your dog have a vacation too! 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Planning permission has not yet been You may well have seen the signs that granted and it may be that, by the time Anglian Water is spending £3.6 million you read this, everything will have been on a new sewerage scheme at settled. Let us hope it is the right thing. Ashwicken. Signed by CARERS It is an awful lot of money, but some homes are having terrible problems. So Sad Loss at Ashwicken Primary it is a good thing.But part of the scheme involves siting a sewage treatment As many of you may have heard we had works in Church Lane and the residents our chickens stolen from the school site are not very happy about that. It will on Saturday 8th June. cover 2/3 of an acre and be completely open to view. It is also situated directly The theft was discovered by one of our on a difficult bend and there are parents when he and his daughter came concerns about fly tipping and others. to feed the chickens on the Sunday Worst of all it will completely blot the morning. The wire fence had been landscape. carefully cut and five of our beloved pet chickens had gone, leaving the Other sewage works locally are set away remaining chicken, 'Betty Boo Boo', from public gaze, often down farm tracks quivering in her nest. and even then completely screened. So what can be done? The children, staff and parents are clearly very upset and puzzled as to why An alternative site exists and has someone would do such a despicable already been offered to Anglian Water. crime. The children lovingly reared these chickens from eggs five years ago and A group of CARERS, representing the they have been part of our school 'family' views of all opponents, have set out their for such a long time. The children used objections to the planning authorities.